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REGULATIONS 



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Passed by the Faculty and approved by the Corporation, 

16 May, 1833. 



Art. I. 
A minimum shall be established in every branch, where it can be 
conveniently done, which shall be within the reach of the capacity of 
faithful students in the lowest third of a class ; and a satisfactory 
acquaintance with this minimum shall be required as the condition 
of a degree. 

Art. II. 
Any number of students in any class, not less than six, wishing 
td attain this minimum in an early part of the College course, may 
form a section for that purpose, — provided they are able in the opin- 
ion of their Instructer, thus to advance, — in which case, they shall 
be provided with additional .instruction, and as soon as they shall 
have satisfactorily completed lfoose studies, it shall be at their option 
to abandon them altogether, U to have instruction in the higher 
branches of those studies, of ftvhich they shall have thus attained 
the minimum. 

AVrt. III. 

Students having thus attaineld the minimum required in any one of 
the branches, may elect what /studies they will afterwards pursue in 
place thereof, and may be forimed into sections, in reference to those 
studies, without regard to ch Asses, having additional instruction pro- 
ved for them, and occupy/^/ * such hours of recitat n, as shall not 
interh Te ^iUki ^ hours/' *otted to the prescribed branches of tht 



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University course, the minimum of which they shall not yet have| 
attained. Students wishing to form a section in any department, 
must give notice to the head of the department within ten days from 
the beginning of a term ; and each section must consist of at least 
six members. 

Art. IV. 

Students thus entering on voluntary studies, shall not quit them 
until the whole course, or the work for which they shall have 
entered, be completed to the satisfaction of the Instructer, and the 
Head of the Department, unless excused for some reasons approved 
by them, and by the President. 

Art. V. 

Sections formed as above, shall be subject to the same system 
of marking for merit and demerit, as may be established in the 
regular course of study ; and such marks shall have like weight in 
determining claims to college honors and benefits. 

Art. VI. 

There shall be at least one Course of Lectures in each term, 
which the two upper classes shall be required to attend. In each 
course the students shall be examined at stated intervals, or shall 
be required to take notes to be submitted to the Instructer, after 
examination of which notes, or of the Student, the same system of 
marking both with regard to proficiency and to personal conduct, 
shall be applied as in common recitations, and with like effect. 

Art. VII. 

Students entering their names for any Course of Lectures on 
which their attendance is permitted, but not required, must complete 
the Course, and shall be examined, or take notes, and be subjected 
to marks in the same manner and with the same effect, as in attend- 
ing Lectures which are obligatory. 

Art. VIII. 

Before the end of the third term in each year, the President/ 
shall publish, and distribute, a List of all Lectures during the su<~ 
ceeding year, stating when, and where, they will be delive^i 
what Students must, and what Students may, attend them,,''" a * 
what time the names of those whose atttendance is voluntas must 
be entered. 



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Art. IX. 

These rules are to be applied only to the present Freshman 
Class, and those who shall hereafter enter. 



In conformity with the preceding regulations the following is estab- 
lished, as the minimum in the respective branches hereinafter men- 
tioned, to begin with the present Freshman and Sophomore classes, 
viz. 

In Mathematics. 

1. Geometry. 

As much as is usually contained in elementary treatises on Plane 
and Solid Geometry, as in Euclid, Legendre, Walker. 

2. Algebra, 

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division of Simple 
Quantities, Compound Quantities, Fractions, Powers, and Roots. 

Solution of Equations of the First Degree with one or two un- 
known quantities ; and -of Quadratic Equations pure and affected with 
one unknown quantity. 

Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots of Simple and Com- 
pound Quantities. 

Binomial Theorem, when the power is integral. 

Theory of Exponents of any Nature whatever. 

Arithmetical and Geometrical Proportion and Progression, 

Use of Logarithms, and their Tables. ,... 

3. Trigonometry^ 
Solution of Triangles both Plane and Spherical. 

A. Analytic Geometry. 

Construction of Simple Algebraic Quantities. 
Equations of the Circle, Ellipse, Hyperbola, and Parabola. 
Method of Drawing Tangents and Normals to the Conic Sec- 
nons. 



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5, Tocography. 
Construction of Charts, 
Dialling. 

Heights and Distances, 
Navigation, 
Surveying, 
Use of the Barometer in Finding Heights. 

6. Differential and Integral Calculus. 
Differentiation of Simple Quantities. 
Method of Drawing Tangents and Normals, 
Integration of Simple Quantities, 

Method of finding the length and area of Curves and the surfaoe 
and solidity of Solids of Revolution, 

In Greek. 

1. Xenophon's Anabasis, 

2. Demosthenes and iEschines de Corona. 

3. Three Tragedies of Sophocles, viz. CEdipus Tyrannus, CEdi-. 
pus Coloneus, and Antigone. 

4. One Tragedy of Euripides. 

5. Twelve Books of the Iliad. 

To be studied in the above order, — one exercise in Robinson's 
Translation of Buttmann's Greek Grammar to be required every 
(Greek) week of the Freshman Class .and also one exercise in 
writing Greek every (Greek) week, to be required of each Class 
through the whole college course, until the minimum be attained. 

In Latin. 

1 . Livy, and the Odes of Horace. 

2. The Satires and Epistles of Horace. The Brutus (de Claris 
pratoribus) of Cicero, 

3. Cicero, de Officiis and Juvenal. 

To be studied in the above order. One exercise in the Syntax 
of Zumpt's Latin Grammar, to be required every (Latin) week of 
the Freshman Class, -j— and also one exercise in writing Latin every 
(Latin) week to be required of each class through the whole college 
course until the minimum be attained. 



In Modern Languages. 

The minimum in the Modern Languages is a knowledge of any 
Language satisfactory to the Teacher who instructs it, and to the 
Committee who may examine. / V. 

Besides which, 

1. French Language. 

Undergraduates wishing to receive extra instruction as volunteers 
in French will apply to Mr. Sales or Mr. Surault, in the course 
of the first week in either term, on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, 
as the arrangements of the Department of the Modern Languages 
do not permit sections to be formed at any other time. 

2. Spanish Language. 

Undergraduates wishing to receive extra instruction as volunteers 
in Spanish will apply as above directed to Mr. Sales. 

3. German Language. 

Undergraduates wishing to receive extra instruction as volunteers 
in German, will apply as above directed to Professor Follen. 

4. Italian Language. 
Undergraduates wishing to receive extra instruction as volunteers 

in Italian will apply as above directed to Dr. Bachi. 

5. Portuguese Language. 

Undergraduates wishing to receive extra instruction as volunteers 
in Portuguese will apply as above directed to Dr. Bachi. 

Any undergraduate having entered his name to study any Modern 
Language, will be required to persevere in the study of the same, 
until he shall have completed it to .the satisfaction of his teacher, and 
been examined and passed by the Committe of the Overseers. 

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In Theology, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Logic 

and Rhetoric, the established minimum is a satisfactory -acquaint- 'h 

ance with the respective established text-booksto be ascertained by^ 

examination. 



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After attaining the minimum every student may have instruction in 
any of the above branches to any extent he may desire, —subject 
to the principles stated in the preceding regulations oi the Corpora- 
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